Steve Baltin of RollingStone.com recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On MÖTLEY CRÜE's plans following the band's much ballyhooed Vegas residency this coming February :

Sixx: "This is the beginning of what will be the biggest probably four to five years of the band's career. We're negotiating with a couple of other extremely huge bands on doing a co-headline tour, something that's never happened before. There's new music in the future."

On the long-awaited film adaptation of CRÜE's band biography "The Dirt - Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band":

Sixx: "The wheels are in motion for getting the MÖTLEY CRÜE movie made now. We finally got everything in order the way it needs to be done, and that's gonna happen. . . We have sort of an agreement with a production company, directors, etc, to right now just keep it amongst ourselves. So once we have everything really together, we're gonna let everybody know. But trust me, when I say the wheels are in motion they're definitely in motion."

On whether there are any plans for MÖTLEY CRÜE to retire in the not-too-distant future:

Sixx: "The band sat down and had a powwow as brothers and friends and guys who've been doing this for over 30 years, and we said, 'When is it time?' We've always said since we were kids we didn't want to hobble into the sunset. So after the movie, at some point — whether it's within a year or a few years — we're probably gonna have that conversation about maybe it's time, maybe it's time to go out on top."

"If I'm watching my favorite boxer and he's just won the heavyweight championship of the world and he retires it kind of makes the guy a legend. I always respected LED ZEPPELIN, and I'd rather MÖTLEY CRÜE be thought of as that type of band rather than a band that's just going through the motions."

"We're really proud of what we've done, whether critics like us or not, whether we've won Grammys or not, whether any of that stuff. We're proud that we did it on our own terms."

A: Eventually it's time to call it quits. I've been sitting on my boat in the Bahamas for the last month and just thinking about the future. There's a lot of really cool things coming up in my mind, and it might be the time to just kind of bow out. But I haven't made a decision a hundred percent yet. It's just a thought that's been going through my head.

Created by David&Goliath, “Drive the Dream” opens with the familiar notes of The Chordettes’ “Mr. Sandman” as a real-life Mr. Sandman enters the bedroom of an unsuspecting young couple who are asleep. After being sprinkled with “Sweet Dreams” dust, the woman smiles and envisions herself on a horse with a romance novel-like hunk in a beautiful green meadow. Meanwhile, Mr. Sandman accidentally stumbles and spills his entire night’s dust supply on the man, launching an extreme dream sequence that begins with the roaring guitars of Mötley Crüe’s “Kickstart My Heart” and Adriana Lima waving a checkered flag as he blasts around a race track at night in a Snow White Pearl Optima Limited with thousands of bikini-clad fans cheering him on from the stands.

As he circles the track with Lima looking on adoringly, the dreaming driver receives nods of approval from the band as bursts of flames and fireworks surround their stage as well as Chuck Liddell, champion bull rider Judd Leffew, and a pair of lumberjacks sawing a massive submarine sandwich.

“Mötley Crüe had a blast doing the Kia commercial,” said bassist Nikki Sixx. “A hot model, a fast car, a pro fighter, pyrotechnics and rock n' roll...What's not to love?”

Much to the disbelief of Lima and drummer Tommy Lee, the high-octane dream turns into a fairy tale when the husband makes a conscious decision to drive the Optima Limited off the race track and into his wife’s fantasy to win her back from Prince Charming.

Nikki Sixx: I'm looking forward to it, but -- to be honest -- I don't love Vegas. I'm sober so it doesn't make sense for me. It is hard for me to appreciate. There are so many people there and so many people are drunk. Still, if you get outside of the city, the place gets pretty hip. We played a show outside the city last time around and it was very different. Not everyone was drunk. It seemed a long way from all that.

From an interview with Tommy Lee in this month's missing Music Radar feature page...

"I'm constantly evolving as a musician. Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks and I can't sit back as a drummer anymore, I have to have my hands on it and say, 'The guitar should sound like this, the bass should sound like this, this is how the drums should sound, the vocals would be really cool like this, this melody is not so good, let's try this.' I just have to touch all of it now. I just know too much!"

From an interview with Tommy Lee in this month's missing Music Radar feature page...

"I'm constantly evolving as a musician. Drums isn't my one thing anymore. I love to produce. I love to make tracks, write tracks, produce tracks and I can't sit back as a drummer anymore, I have to have my hands on it and say, 'The guitar should sound like this, the bass should sound like this, this is how the drums should sound, the vocals would be really cool like this, this melody is not so good, let's try this.' I just have to touch all of it now. I just know too much!"

VINCE NEIL On MÖTLEY CRÜE: 'We Don't Have To All Hang Out Together To Be A Band' - Mar. 25, 2012

On March 16, Sally Steele of Vegas Rocks! magazine conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil at the "soft opening" of his new strip club Girls, Girls, Girls. You can now watch the chat below. A few excerpts follow.

On why he decided to open his own strip club:

Vince: "I've been going to strip clubs my whole adult life, I think. With the song 'Girls Girls Girls', we got inducted in 2007 into the Stripper Fall Of Fame. So it was just something that has been coming for a long time."

"I love new businesses. It's just another cool thing, and I think it's great for Las Vegas. It's something different in a city that has everything. . . I literally live, like, five minutes from [the club]. So I'm gonna be here a lot when I'm in town and come here and hang out. It's a great place to hang."

On MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars' comment in a recent Vegas Rocks! interview that Vince has "distanced" himself from the rest of the band:

Vince: "Well, I mean, I live in another state than the guys do. Yeah, I guess I am, but it doesn't really matter. It's like, what happens on stage, that's what really counts for MÖTLEY CRÜE. We don't have to all hang out together to be a band; it's what you do on stage [that's important]. So I think it maybe feels a little distant just because, like, they go do and some stuff in L.A., obviously it's harder for me to get there than it is for them to just drive down the street. So I guess just, really, [not] living out of the same city [makes a big difference]."

On the rumors that he doesn't get along with his MÖTLEY CRÜE bandmates, which is why they travel on separate buses:

Vince: "We go on separate buses because we can afford it. People don't understand that. We try to travel comfortably. Nikki [Sixx, bass] has his kids, and Tommy [Lee, drums] has his kids… You can't do that on the same bus. If you can afford to to do it, why woud you wanna live like animals if you can just be nice and comfortable? We've been doing this for 31 years. We don't have to do it like a band that just started out anymore. . . That's all just rumors. I don't know why people say that. Because we're, like, the best of friends. It's just dumb rumors, and people just talk without really knowing anything."

On whether he has any regrets:

Vince: "No. Because everything that's happened to me, I try to learn from those mistakes and make my life better. You can't learn anything until you actually fail at something. So, no, no regrets at all."

On whether he is ever going to have any more kids:

Vince: "No. I just became a grandfather last October. [My son Neil Wharton] had a little boy named Trace."